| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, July 30th 2014, 15:13 GMT |
Niki Lauda insists that Formula 1 does not need former team boss Flavio Briatore to help find ways to make itself more popular
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| By David Evans | Wednesday, July 30th 2014, 14:20 GMT |
Citroen drivers Kris Meeke and Mads Ostberg will have the next three rounds of the World Rally Championship to stake their claim on a DS3 WRC for next season
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| Wednesday, July 30th 2014, 15:45 GMT |
The second round of the inaugural Formula E season has been postponed by five weeks, with the race in Putrajaya in Malaysia now taking place on November 22
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, July 29th 2014, 16:06 GMT |
The Caterham Formula 1 team says it is taking legal action against former staff for what it claims are "damaging" accusations made against the outfit
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, July 29th 2014, 15:20 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen reckons his performance in the Hungarian Grand Prix shows there is "light at the end of the tunnel" following his difficult start to his Formula 1 season
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| By Kevin Turner | Tuesday, July 29th 2014, 16:15 GMT |
British Touring Car squad BMR will run four Volkswagen Passats for the rest of the season
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| By Kevin Turner | Monday, July 28th 2014, 15:57 GMT |
British Touring Car Championship frontrunner Jason Plato believes he can still win the 2014 title despite currently lying 49 points behind leader Colin Turkington
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, July 28th 2014, 16:29 GMT |
The Ferrari Formula 1 team must not get over-excited about Fernando Alonso's second place in Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix, according to team principal Marco Mattiacci
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| By Mark Glendenning | Monday, July 28th 2014, 17:06 GMT |
NASCAR has confiscated parts from the Joe Gibbs Toyota that carried Denny Hamlin to third in last weekend's Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis to investigate a possible technical breach
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| Sunday, July 27th 2014, 20:15 GMT |
Jeff Gordon took an emphatic victory in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis, grabbing the advantage at the final restart to cement his place atop the NASCAR Sprint Cup points standings
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| By Ben Anderson and Glenn Freeman | Sunday, July 27th 2014, 18:00 GMT |
Fernando Alonso says that finishing second in the Hungarian Grand Prix feels like a win, even though Ferrari's tyre strategy gamble did not ultimately pay off
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| By Ben Anderson and Jonathan Noble | Sunday, July 27th 2014, 18:43 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton was right to ignore team orders to let Nico Rosberg through in the Hungarian Grand Prix, according to Mercedes Formula 1 chief Niki Lauda
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| Saturday, July 26th 2014, 19:17 GMT |
Kevin Harvick dominated qualifying for the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis, taking his fourth NASCAR Sprint Cup pole position of the 2014 season
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| By Charles Bradley | Saturday, July 26th 2014, 18:50 GMT |
Two post-race penalties have totally rearranged the outcome of Saturday's GP2 race, with both of Racing Engineering's drivers affected
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| By Gary Watkins | Saturday, July 26th 2014, 20:02 GMT |
The Spa 24 Hours was red-flagged shortly before one-quarter distance with the #3 WRT Audi leading the race in the hands of Christopher Mies
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| By Gary Watkins | Friday, July 25th 2014, 18:38 GMT |
The British GT championship is set to have live TV coverage for every round next season
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| Friday, July 25th 2014, 17:56 GMT |
M-Sport has unveiled the facelifted version of the Ford Fiesta RS WRC that will make its World Rally Championship debut on Rally Finland next week
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| Saturday, July 26th 2014, 01:16 GMT |
Christian Fittipaldi and Joao Barbosa took victory for Action Express in an eventful United SportsCar Championship race at Indianapolis
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| Thursday, July 24th 2014, 21:52 GMT |
Ryan Dalziel came out on top in the battle for pole position at the Indianapolis round of the United SportsCar Championship
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| By Mark Glendenning | Thursday, July 24th 2014, 20:01 GMT |
Rahal Letterman Lanigan and AJ Foyt Racing have been penalised for technical infractions following last weekend's IndyCar double-header in Toronto.
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| Thursday, July 24th 2014, 22:13 GMT |
Briton Leon Camier will stand in for Nicky Hayden on the Aspar Honda for the next two MotoGP rounds as the 2006 world champion recovers from wrist surgery
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, July 22nd 2014, 15:16 GMT |
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier says Felipe Massa was wrong to blame Kevin Magnussen for their German Grand Prix collision, because the FIA's report proves the Dane was totally innocent
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| Tuesday, July 22nd 2014, 14:32 GMT |
Former Formula 1 driver Jerome d'Ambrosio has completed Dragon Racing's line-up for the inaugural Formula E season
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| By Mark Glendenning | Tuesday, July 22nd 2014, 15:59 GMT |
NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France says that he is sceptical about the potential effectiveness of the newly-formed Race Teams Alliance
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| By Hal Ridge | Monday, July 21st 2014, 15:02 GMT |
Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Thierry Neuville plans to contest a round of the World Rallycross Championship, potentially before the end of the 2014 season
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| Monday, July 21st 2014, 15:20 GMT |
Formula E has unveiled the track layout it will use for the fourth round of its inaugural season in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, July 21st 2014, 16:29 GMT |
Mercedes Formula 1 drivers Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg did run with Brembo brake material in the German Grand Prix, AUTOSPORT can reveal
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| By Jonathan Noble | Sunday, July 20th 2014, 18:09 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton feared for the safety of the Formula 1 marshals at the German Grand Prix when a safety car was not brought out for Adrian Sutil's spun Sauber
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| By Ben Anderson | Sunday, July 20th 2014, 17:50 GMT |
Nico Rosberg thinks Mercedes still has work to do to fix the brakes on its Formula 1 car, after struggling to manage his own during the German Grand Prix
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| By Mark Glendenning | Sunday, July 20th 2014, 22:17 GMT |
Mike Conway cashed in on an early change from wet tyres to slicks to win the second race of the IndyCar double-header in Toronto, his second victory of the season
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, July 19th 2014, 23:32 GMT |
IndyCar says that it would have been "crazy" to attempt to race in Toronto on Saturday afternoon due to the risk presented by the treacherous conditions
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| By Edd Straw | Saturday, July 19th 2014, 19:49 GMT |
Pastor Maldonado will continue as a Lotus Formula 1 driver in 2015, team principal Gerard Lopez has confirmed
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, July 19th 2014, 22:41 GMT |
IndyCar was forced to cancel the opening race of this weekend's double-header in Toronto due to bad weather
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| By Charles Bradley | Friday, July 18th 2014, 18:28 GMT |
Three drivers have been given three-place grid penalties for impeding in qualifying for the first GP2 race at Hockenheim on Saturday
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| Friday, July 18th 2014, 17:45 GMT |
World Rally Championship star Ott Tanak dominated day one of his home round of the European Rally Championship in Estonia
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, July 18th 2014, 19:14 GMT |
Simon Pagenaud was fastest in a disrupted second IndyCar practice session on the streets of Toronto on Friday
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| Thursday, July 17th 2014, 21:07 GMT |
Nicky Hayden has undergone further wrist surgery to try to tackle his long-standing injury during MotoGP's summer break.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, July 17th 2014, 17:45 GMT |
Formula 1 teams have all removed their FRIC suspension systems for the German Grand Prix, ending fears that the weekend could be overshadowed by protests
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| By Mark Glendenning | Wednesday, July 16th 2014, 15:40 GMT |
Tony Kanaan says that he now feels fully integrated with Chip Ganassi Racing and is confident that the team is on the verge of a turnaround after a disappointing start to the season
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, July 16th 2014, 15:51 GMT |
Formula 1 chiefs are pushing to change the penalty system for unsafe releases from pitstops, AUTOSPORT can reveal, after complaints from drivers that it is unfair.
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| Wednesday, July 16th 2014, 17:43 GMT |
Honda's preparations for the 2015 MotoGP season gained momentum on Wednesday as Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa sampled a prototype of next year's bike at Brno.
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| By Peter Mills | Tuesday, July 15th 2014, 16:12 GMT |
Lada announced that it will unveil a concept of its 2015 Vesta World Touring Car Championship racer at the Moscow International Motorshow in August
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| By Marcus Simmons | Tuesday, July 15th 2014, 14:09 GMT |
British teams Fortec Motorsport and Double R Racing are both set to change their driver line-ups for the next round of the Formula 3 European Championship at the Red Bull Ring
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, July 15th 2014, 14:58 GMT |
The Williams Formula 1 team must work hard to maintain its recent form because the strength of the midfield pack means it could easily slip back, according to performance chief Rob Smedley
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| By Glenn Freeman | Monday, July 14th 2014, 15:47 GMT |
Renault has given its long-term support to its 'World Series' racing package, securing the future of its headlining Formula Renault 3.5 category for multiple years.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, July 14th 2014, 19:01 GMT |
McLaren has become the first Formula 1 team to confirm intentions to remove its FRIC suspension system for the German Grand Prix
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| By Gary Watkins | Monday, July 14th 2014, 18:25 GMT |
Steven Richards and Shane van Gisbergen have joined a growing contingent of V8 Supercars stars racing in this month's Spa 24 Hours
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| By Hal Ridge | Sunday, July 13th 2014, 14:29 GMT |
Toomas Heikkinen became the sixth consecutive different winner in the World Rallycross Championship this season, coming out on top of a dramatic final at Mettet in Belgium
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| Sunday, July 13th 2014, 20:47 GMT |
Brad Keselowski dominated the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire on Sunday, despite the late scare of a green-white-chequered finish, to record his third win of 2014 and his second victory in three races
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| Sunday, July 13th 2014, 21:05 GMT |
Gustavo Yacaman and Olivier Pla won the United SportsCar Championship race at Mosport Park in a dominant lights-to-flag victory
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| Saturday, July 12th 2014, 22:25 GMT |
Gustavo Yacaman qualified on pole for the United SportsCar Championship race at Canadian Motorsport Park in the Prototype class
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| By David Evans | Saturday, July 12th 2014, 21:16 GMT |
Robert Kubica has scored his first win in a World Rally Car - dominating the Rally del Casentino in Italy on Saturday
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| By Mark Glendenning | Sunday, July 13th 2014, 04:04 GMT |
An inspired strategy call from the Andretti Autosport pitwall was rewarded with an unlikely IndyCar victory for Ryan Hunter-Reay at Iowa on Saturday night
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, July 11th 2014, 21:02 GMT |
Juan Pablo Montoya edged out Penske team-mate Will Power to claim the top spot in a rain-delayed second IndyCar practice session at Iowa Speedway
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| Friday, July 11th 2014, 21:58 GMT |
Kyle Busch qualified quickest at New Hampshire Motor Speedway to take his second NASCAR Sprint Cup pole of the year
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, July 12th 2014, 00:08 GMT |
Scott Dixon will lead an all-Ganassi front row for Saturday night's IndyCar race at Iowa Speedway after dominating qualifying at the 7/8th mile track on Friday evening
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, July 10th 2014, 15:57 GMT |
Daniel Ricciardo is certain his Red Bull Formula 1 team-mate Sebastian Vettel will soon rediscover his best form, after a difficult start to the season.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Thursday, July 10th 2014, 15:10 GMT |
IndyCar's competition boss Derrick Walker says that calls for a zero tolerance policy on cars that fail technical inspections are unrealistic.
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| Thursday, July 10th 2014, 18:28 GMT |
Sebastien Buemi continued to set the pace on the fourth day of official Formula E testing at Donington Park on Thursday
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| By Edd Straw | Wednesday, July 9th 2014, 17:59 GMT |
Giedo van der Garde escaped without injury after one of the biggest crashes of his career at the end of today's Silverstone Formula 1 test.
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| Wednesday, July 9th 2014, 17:05 GMT |
Sebastien Buemi topped the third day of official Formula E testing at the Donington Park circuit on Wednesday.
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| By Edd Straw | Wednesday, July 9th 2014, 18:08 GMT |
Charles Pic believes both teams and drivers would face a "big challenge" if the Formula 1's potential switch to 18-inch tyres is given the go-ahead.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Tuesday, July 8th 2014, 16:46 GMT |
IndyCar's competition boss Derrick Walker expects to make changes to the series' procedures for investigating post-race penalties following its recent back-flip on sanctions issued against Sebastien Bourdais
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, July 8th 2014, 16:10 GMT |
Felipe Massa set the pace for Williams on the first day of the post-British Grand Prix Formula 1 test at Silverstone
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| By Mark Glendenning | Tuesday, July 8th 2014, 21:52 GMT |
Jack Hawksworth has been given medical clearance to drive in this weekend's IndyCar race at Iowa Speedway.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Monday, July 7th 2014, 14:09 GMT |
Nine of NASCAR's largest teams have formed an alliance with the aim of exploring common interests and collaborating on initiatives to promote the sport
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| By Mark Glendenning | Monday, July 7th 2014, 14:46 GMT |
Juan Pablo Montoya believes that he is emerging as a dark horse for this year's IndyCar championship following his win at Pocono on Sunday
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, July 7th 2014, 15:54 GMT |
The Williams Formula 1 team was taken aback by how competitive its car was in the British Grand Prix, according to its head of performance engineering Rob Smedley
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| Sunday, July 6th 2014, 19:27 GMT |
Richard Petty Motorsports driver Aric Almirola picked up his first NASCAR Sprint Cup victory in a Daytona race finally abandoned after two enormous crashes and multiple rain delays
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| By Ben Anderson | Sunday, July 6th 2014, 19:11 GMT |
Fernando Alonso says his British Grand Prix battle with Sebastian Vettel was a lost cause because his Ferrari Formula 1 car had too many problems to keep him behind
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| By Mark Glendenning | Sunday, July 6th 2014, 20:29 GMT |
Juan Pablo Montoya led Helio Castroneves to a Team Penske one-two to secure his first win since his IndyCar comeback with a superb drive at Pocono on Sunday
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, July 5th 2014, 22:57 GMT |
Juan Pablo Montoya beat team-mate Will Power to secure his first pole position since his single-seater comeback with a superb qualifying performance at Pocono on Saturday.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, July 5th 2014, 20:45 GMT |
Gabby Chaves claimed an emphatic victory ahead of main title rival Zach Veach in Saturday's Indy Lights race at Pocono.
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| Sunday, July 6th 2014, 01:45 GMT |
This weekend's 400-mile Daytona NASCAR Sprint Cup race has been postponed until Sunday due to rain
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| By Charles Bradley | Friday, July 4th 2014, 17:50 GMT |
Nick Yelloly topped the practice times at Silverstone on Friday evening, leading a British 1-2-4-5 on home turf.
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| By Marcus Simmons and Glenn Freeman | Friday, July 4th 2014, 18:02 GMT |
Lucas di Grassi set the pace for the Audi-backed Abt team on the second day of Formula E testing at Donington Park on Friday
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| Friday, July 4th 2014, 22:16 GMT |
David Gilliland claimed a surprise pole for Saturday's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Daytona following a chaotic and rain-affected qualifying session
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, July 3rd 2014, 18:43 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen believes Formula 1 would be 'very stupid' to drop Monza from the calendar, as his rivals agreed that grand prix racing needs to stay at the historic venue.
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| By Edd Straw | Thursday, July 3rd 2014, 18:43 GMT |
Toro Rosso Formula 1 team technical director James Key has revealed he held a "crisis meeting" after the Austrian Grand Prix to address reliability problems
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| Thursday, July 3rd 2014, 18:59 GMT |
Sebastien Buemi topped the first day of official Formula E testing at Donington on Thursday for the Alain Prost-associated e.dams squad
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| By Edd Straw | Tuesday, July 1st 2014, 14:46 GMT |
AUTOSPORT's technical expert, Gary Anderson, has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Ulster.
Anderson was made an honorary doctor of science in a graduation ceremony at the university's Coleraine Campus on Tuesday.
The doctorate is in recognition of his achievements in motorsport, which make him a role model for students graduating from the university.
Ask Gary Anderson
Although Anderson embarked on a long and distinguished career in motorsport without any formal qualifications, producing racewinning cars for both Jordan and Stewart, he is quick to stress the importance of education.
"When I was young, education was not very high on my to-do list and at Coleraine Secondary School, to be honest my aim was to leave there as soon as possible," Anderson told AUTOSPORT.
"So it was a great honour to go back to my home town to receive this honorary degree from the University of Ulster.
"In the late 1960s/early 1970s, it was difficult to find work in Northern Ireland and I decided to move to England.
"From leaving school at 15 to starting work for Bernie Ecclestone at Brabham at 22 I had nine different jobs, from a building site dump truck driver to a mechanic on Massey Ferguson tractors
"I have experienced most things but as they say when you get involved in a job that you love you never work again. In a way that's what happened to me but I had to work hard.
"I questioned and listened to everything and in motorsport I had some great tutors, Bob Dance, Gordon Murray and Gordon Coppuck are three that I would like to mention.
"It was through people like this and my determination that I got the opportunities that I did.
"When I moved into the design side of things I was employing people to work for me with vastly higher qualifications than I had.
"I believe that combining education and experience and getting them to work together is a stronger combination than either individually."
As well as his time at Jordan and Stewart/Jaguar as technical director, Anderson has worked for Brabham, McLaren and Ensign in F1.
| By Gary Watkins | Tuesday, July 1st 2014, 15:06 GMT |
Former grand prix driver Jarno Trulli's new Formula E team will be run by successful single-seater squad Super Nova.
TrulliGP has signed up Super Nova, which won four Formula 3000 drivers' titles in the 1990s and early 2000s, to run its Spark-Renault SRT_01Es in the wake of the official announcement of the team last month.
Trulli, whose team-mate in the inaugural season of the Formula E Championship will be Michela Cerruti, told AUTOSPORT: "We have reached an agreement with [team bosses] David and John Sears at Super Nova and I am very pleased because I rate the team very highly.
"They are very serious people with a high level of experience, so we couldn't have found a better partner."
David Sears added: "We wanted to be involved with Formula E from the beginning, so we are very pleased and excited about this.
"Running a team commercially is incredibly difficult so this is exactly what we've needed since our sponsor went bust on us and we had to shut up shop in GP2."
Super Nova, which was also a frontrunner in GP2 before dropping out of the series ahead of the 2012 season, joins fellow stalwart British race team Carlin, which is running the Mahindra Racing entries, on the Formula E grid.
Norfolk-based Super Nova has raced in Auto GP since leaving GP2, winning the drivers' title in 2012-13.
Ex-Lotus motorsport director Claudio Berro, who formerly ran GT racing programmes for Maserati and Ferrari, is no longer involved with the team.
SUPER NOVA'S TITLES
1995 Formula 3000 Vincenzo Sospiri
1997 Formula 3000 Ricardo Zonta
1998 Formula 3000 Juan Pablo Montoya
2002 Formula 3000 Sebastien Bourdais
2006-07 A1GP Team Germany
2012 Auto GP Adrian Quaife-Hobbs
2013 Auto GP Vittorio Ghirelli
| By David Evans | Tuesday, July 1st 2014, 16:03 GMT |
Rally Poland boss Jaroslaw Noworol has spoken out against criticism of the itinerary for his World Rally Championship event last week.
The seventh round of the WRC was slammed by drivers and team principals for 18-hour days and cancelled stages, but Noworol pointed to the championship's own sporting and commercial restrictions as the reason for the negativity.
The rally's opening day proper was cut short with SS5 trimmed due to the road surface before the start.
Stages seven and eight were subsequently canned after one run, when the sandy roads were left with foot-deep ruts, meaning 37 of the proposed 55 Lithuanian miles were lost.
Citroen driver Kris Meeke said: "What pisses me off is the people who went to inspect the stages in Lithuania; what did they do? Go for a night's holiday?
"All they needed to do was tap a metal rod into the ground to know it wasn't suitable, but they ruined it for us, the spectators and for the people of Lithuania."
Noworol said: "We have an agreement with the FIA and with the promoter that our rally should be in two countries - in Lithuania and Poland - and we did everything that was in the agreement.
"The Lithuanians were responsible for the time in their country. They proposed stages to us, but the distance was too big."
Events are encouraged to ensure at least 25 per cent of their total route mileage is competitive; Poland was 21 per cent, which is why Lithuanian stages had to be as close as possible to the border.
Noworol said the use of Lithuanian stages would be discussed by the organisers with the FIA and WRC Promoter shortly after that rally - they are not expected to return next year.
WRC Promoter's Oliver Ciesla said: "When we do these things we do them to bring the rally to additional fans.
"If it's worthwhile, we accept the extra costs and the extra efforts. It is up for discussion; it has to be re-evaluated."
There was uniform dislike for what Volkswagen team principal Jost Capito labeled a "crap" itinerary, but Noworol said this was a byproduct of the day in Lithuania.
"I know how the teams felt, we also had to work these hours," said Noworol.
"If Rally Poland is only in Poland, this will be changed."
| By Gary Watkins and Glenn Freeman | Monday, June 30th 2014, 16:00 GMT |
Formula E has chosen London's Battersea Park as its preferred venue for the finale to its inaugural season.
London was one of the cities originally chosen from 23 applicants in 2013 to host a race, and AUTOSPORT reported earlier this year that Battersea was the likely venue for the race.
That was confirmed as the "chosen location" for the June 27 race at the championship's launch event in London (pictured) on Monday evening.
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson said the event "is set to provide an awesome addition to the capital's sporting calendar.
"Battersea, which is already booming with the buzz of regeneration, will be alive with the excitement that this new, world-class event will no doubt spark.
"Hosting the championship final of this all-electric race is a fantastic feather in our city's sporting cap.
"It shows that there is great confidence in London's ability to stage the biggest and the best global sporting events."
HURDLES TO OVERCOME
Other venues in London had been evaluated, including the Olympic Park, Hyde Park and a venue around Wembley Stadium.
The Battersea Park event is not definite yet, with a spokesman for Wandsworth Borough Council confirming to AUTOSPORT that a race had not been signed off.
"We need to look at it very carefully," said the spokesman, "and first of all to speak to amenity groups and local residents.
"We are not in a position to say yes or no at this stage."
| By Ben Anderson | Monday, June 30th 2014, 15:43 GMT |
Adrian Sutil has no regrets about leaving the Force India Formula 1 team for Sauber, despite the contrasting fortunes of the two squads so far this season.
Force India lies fourth in the F1 constructors' championship, after scoring points in every race so far this year, while Sutil's new team Sauber has yet to register on the scoreboard after eight grands prix.
The Swiss squad has struggled with chassis and engine issues on the C33, but Sutil is happy to see his old team doing well and is hopeful Sauber can perform just as strongly once it gets on top of its problems.
"I had wonderful years with Force India, and I needed a change and I went to Sauber," Sutil said, when asked by AUTOSPORT if he was frustrated to see Force India do so well while Sauber struggles.
"So this chapter is done for me and I'm happy to see them be successful, and I did a lot of work so maybe this is [why they have] what they have right now.
"I'm not thinking back, [and] that it's a shame I'm not there. It's OK they have a good result, I am happy for them.
"Life goes on - new team, new challenge, no regrets. It would be great to do as well as Force India with this team in the future."
| Monday, June 30th 2014, 16:02 GMT |
Formula E has made changes to its proposed 'Fan Boost' system, which will allow a public vote to determine which drivers are given extra power to deploy during a race.
At the championship's launch event in London on Monday it was revealed that the power boost available has been increased to 90hp.
The online fan vote, which will close shortly before the start of a race, will allow the three most popular drivers to receive one boost each, which will increase the power of the car from 133kw (180bhp) to 200kw (270bhp).
On the subject of Formula E's official launch, the series' CEO Alejandro Agag said: "As our first race draws closer, it's fantastic to see the new era of motorsport come to life.
"Next month will see our first [public] test days where we already have 3000 members of the public registered to come and see, but also hear what we believe will be the future of motorsport.
"We are very excited about the start of the season and pleased to be taking further steps forward."
